(Bloomberg) — The Philippines said last week’s encounter with China in the disputed South China Sea where a Filipino soldier lost a finger was a “deliberate act” by Beijing. Most Read from Bloomberg Manila has “come to a conclusion that it was not a misunderstanding or an accident,” Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro told a briefing […]
As New York City jurors deliberate over whether to convict former President Donald Trump on charges that he falsified business records to hide a payment to an adult film star from the American public before the 2016 election, it’s still not clear how President Joe Biden would address a potential guilty verdict. Such a verdict […]
Joe Biden’s administration is going after big corporations with antitrust lawsuits. It’s an aggressive approach that makes Biden stand out compared to his predecessors. High-profile cases include Live Nation, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, as well as non-tech companies. President Joe Biden is really leaning into his pro-labor image. The Biden administration has launched investigations and […]
May 3—Jurors began deliberating Friday in the retrial of a man previously convicted in the 2016 shooting death of an Army veteran during an Albuquerque ATM robbery. Matthew Chavez, 34, was convicted in 2018 of second-degree murder and attempted armed robbery and sentenced to 23 1/2 years in prison for the shooting death of 24-year-old […]
Attorneys from both sides agreed Friday that defendant Jacob Anthony Caliboso was driving under the influence in a 2020 head-on crash near Oxnard that cost the lives of a Camarillo grandmother and her 7-year-old granddaughter. But during their closing arguments before a jury in Ventura County Superior Court, the attorneys disagreed on whether the incident […]
Sherrilyn Ifill, a professor at Harvard Law School and former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, spoke about the promise and reality of the Brown v. Board of Education decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 declaring unconstitutional the nation’s separate-but-equal education system. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector) LAWRENCE — Former NAACP Legal Defense […]
Last week — on the state’s third attempt after a pair of mistrials — a jury determined that Robert Holton II was guilty of the ghastly murder of a woman who spurned his advances. Wednesday morning, they began deliberating on whether the former day laborer and football coach should spend the rest of his life […]
Apr. 10—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The Richland Township Zoning Hearing Board is set to deliberate on Wednesday night whether a storage company may open a facility in the former Sears department store location attached to The Johnstown Galleria. The mall at 500 Galleria Drive, owned by Leo Karruli, is zoned for commercial use, and the township’s […]
By Stine Jacobsen and Louise Rasmussen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark has dropped its investigation into the explosions in 2022 on the Nord Stream pipelines carrying Russian gas to Germany, police said on Monday, becoming the second nation to do so after Sweden closed its own inquiry. The multi-billion dollar Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines transporting […]
In light of the Il-76 plane crash in Russia, Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence has reported that the prisoner exchange scheduled for 24 January did not take place. It has no information on whether there were Ukrainian prisoners on board the aircraft. Source: Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence in a statement Quote: “A prisoner exchange was to have taken […]